Account-book



(No Model.)

A. J. PURVIS.

ACCOUNT BOOK.

No. 408,958, 8 Patented May 28, 1889..

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ALFRED J. PURVIS, OF UTICA, NE\\' YORK.

ACCOUNT-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,958, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed June 4, 188 Serial No. 133,752. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. PURvIs, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Utica, Oneida county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Account-Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in account-books; and it consists in combining a bill-head with a stub, ruling the same on both sides, and binding a number of them in book form, and combining therewith an illbeing consecutively numbered with same number on each stub and its companion billhead.

The object of the invention is to produce a book in which the accounts of a customer may be recorded when made, and which will at the same time serve as an order and bill-head book, thereby dispensing with the extra labor of transferring from one book to another 00- casioned by the use of the old books.

Another object of the invention is to produce an account-book whereby a bill, when required, can be made out with less liability of making mistakes and with greater dispatch than is practicable by the use of ordinary books and bill-heads.

These objects are attained by the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents my improved book with the front cover thrown back and the indexed portion partially opened. 2 is a view representing the book opened.

The bill-head A is ruled in the usual manner, having a space, A, nearits top, on which the business address, 850., is printed, the righthand edge being provided with two separate columns, a a, ruled, one column for dollars and one for cents. Its left-hand edge has a ruled column, a, for the month, and another for the day of the month. Each bill-head is separated from its stub by a vertical line of perforations, b. The stub at its edges is provided with columns 0, one for dollars and the other for cents, and an additional column, 0, for the month and day of the month.

It will be observed that the reverse sides of the bill-head and stub are also ruled,thereby economizing in the use of material.

The bill-heads and their coupons or stubs thus produced are bound info book form and paged, each stub and corresponding bill-head having the same number. I

A portion of the book is indexed to facilitate the ready reference to any desired bill or account.

I am aware that account-books have been made with carbonized paper interposed between their leaves, and that the leaves have been folded and carbonized paper interposed between the folds, and do not claim such as my invention, inasmuch as by my arrangement the expense of the carbonized paper is dispensed with, and both sides of the leaf may be utilized, and a mistake made on the original copy may be corrected without being transmitted to the bill or duplicate, as is the case in the above books, and in which case both original and copy would have to be corrected.

I am also aware that books have been made with duplicate printed forms on a leaf, two of which are designed to be retained for reference.

Check-books provided with stubs are also common. I therefore disclaim these, as neither of them is adapted to be utilized in keeping a series of accounts on the one form or check, as the case may be, and neither is so constructed as to facilitate the utilizing of both sides of its leaves.

The advantages of my account-book are First. Thehorizontal item and date lines of the stub and bill-head are on the same straight line, and a record on the stub may be readily transferred or carried forward to the bill with dispatch and comparatively no liability of making mistakes.

Second. The book subserves the double pur pose of an account-book and bill-head.

Third. The itemized bills are kept in book form and paged, so that these, by the use of the index, can be readily referred to.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming a combined ledger and bill-book having a perresidence, &c., and ruled vertical columns and horizontal lines for the dates and for dollars and cents and for items, and also having a printed bill-head on the same page, which is correspondingly ruled and numbered, said stub and bill-head being separable on a predetermined perforated line, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

ALFRED J. PURVIS.

\Vitnesses:

(J. D. F. I-IoXIE, CHARLES CO BURTON. 

